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Subject: Lavender Lady Blooming

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Photo of Lavender Lady Blooming
phicks wrote:
'Lavender Lady' has such remarkable violet-purple blooms it appears to be transluscent or nearly glow-in-the-dark. It is sometimes listed as synonymous with 'Amethyst,' but Passiflora amethystina is the true 'Amethyst,' which is not an actual species vine but is an an old English hybrid of P. kermesina with P. caerulea. 'Lavender Lady' was further hybridized by the American plant breeder Patrick Worley, & introduced in 1982